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Germany surrenders to the Soviet army on VE Day.
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President Truman will help any country that is taken over by Communist.
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The United States will aid any European country avoid disease and poverty.
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Russia cut off all forms of travel to Berlin. Those in Berlin began to starve for 11 months and had to get food via the Berlin Airlift from the United States and United Kingdom.
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United States, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United Kingdom form a treaty organization.
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Russia tests its very first atomic bomb.
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North Korea invades South Korea with Stalin's support.
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North Korea continues to affiliate itself with Russia and South Korea affiliates itself with USA.
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Defense treaty created amongst Communist states East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union.
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John F. Kennedy was killed while driving in a motorcade. Conspiracies arise that Lee Harvey Oswald was not the true killer and it has to do with the communist or the CIA.
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The United States is also at war now with Vietnam. They send 150,000 troops out.
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Neil Armstrong is the first man on the moon in Apollo 11.
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Russia and its allies boycott Olympics in Los Angeles in reponse to the previous United States's boycott.
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Communist country alliance is now ended.
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End of Cold War and end of Soviet Union.
